Another day of working at max and beckys.. the heat is pretty crazy.   We took breaks in the middle of the day to stay cool. 

I am doign BETA work out here too.. so I had ssome good cool uniterupted time in the AC to work on that . 

I got a chance today to connect with my old friend and colleague Prof Joenn Ploenning. from U of Rostok in Germany. H’e s invitted me to give a talk.. I’m super excited to see him again. We worked together in Muncih for several years 

This afternoon,w e decided to head in to the mountains to try and escape the heat.. so instead of 100 degrees, we had 85.. degrees.. but t was still a big improvement. We did the Bog Tusegue loop .   Super fun having Gabe and Mya here too 

Around 7 we headed up to Canyon road for a monthly art walk. tehre were food vendors.. lots of people.. still super hot 

Totally coincidentally, we ran into our friends Danny and MJ who’ve moved out here from Vermont. They have a bagel business.. and thats something that Santa Fe really needs !. It was great catching up with them !

End of another hot and productieve day.. more tommorrow
nite all, nite sam
-me

I mentioned yesterday that we’re all putting together 5 min slide shows abotu our past year as part of the baby shower.. I’ve still not settled on a topic. My first idea was to talk about the fun i’ having with Hackclub attending there events all over the place. (spoiler alert.. I later decided to do something else ) .. but as part of this topic.. I was thinking of telling the story using snapshots from my cheap kids thermal paper camera 

At the ever-present risk of makign things too complicated, I bought an old receipt printer and hacked it to scan in all these pictures from all the hackclub events.   It was so fun writing all that code.. and then using it to revist all the fun at those events. 

we spent the day helping max and becky with thezilkions of things aroudn thereir house.. they’ve just finished major renovatons to their house to make a new bedroom.. and we’re workign to help them move in, and recover from all the contruction. Lots of work.. 

Its crazy hot here.. Diane ansd I have rented a house with George and Doreen a coulle of blocks from max and becky. Thank goodness its airconditioned.. Its been close to 100 every day. 

we did ventrure out in the heat to check out one of the modern art galleries in the nearby rail yard.. soup er cool stufff 

I went down another rabbit hole later in the day as part of the slide shows we’re doing. I tried to find pictures of critters our cameras have caught in dianes gardens over the last year. here’s a small sampling 

Another nice dinner outside in the beautiful Santa Fe sun.  

Max and becky have a wasp nests in their electrical inlet to the house. Max baught a bee suit to protect him self as he handles it.. I’ll let you know how that comes out 

End of another day.. always enjoy remembering all the fn stuff we see out here.. Sant Fe-ans have strong opinionxs .. most of which I agree with 

More tomorrow. 

nite all. nite sam
-me

Got in to Santa Fe last night. Met up with Max, Becky , and Beckys parents and our good freinds George and Doreen .   Had a great dinner together at Marias.. One of our favorite Mexican/Southwestern places. 

One of the things we’re here to do is to have a family baby shower fror max and becky. .. Since both sides of the fmaily are goign to be here, We’re each supposed to create a 5 minute slide show for part of the baby shower. I’m helping Diane gather pictures of her gardens as part of that.. I’ll share the whole thing later (with her permission).. Here are soem photos I took to help wiht the project

More work aroudn the house wiht Max and becky today, tomorrow.. and the next week

note all, nite sam
-me

Heading to Sant Fe today for our 3rd trip this summer. Helping Max and Becky get ready fro baby. Just as we were gettign ready to go.. this guy shows up in our attic.. 

Dont worry .. we found him a new home about a mile from our house.. 

Westward ho !

ite all, nite sam
-me